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  • Blogs

    March 21, 2012

    The Good, the Bad and the Spam: The Complexities of Switching to Gmail

    My aunt called me on Tuesday. She just got an iPhone. Admittedly, she is not technically inclined and was in need of a little technical support. Apparently, when she deleted e-mails she received on her computer in Outlook, they still showed up in her inbox on her phone. I diagnosed the problem, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Molecular Gastronomy and More: Modernist Cuisine, Volume 1

    Modernist Cuisine is not your grandmother's Joy of Cooking. It establishes a new language by which chefs can communicate the complexities of their intellectual work. Authors Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet have produced a beautiful and fascinating cookbook that explores the possibili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    5 Ways Apple Revolutionized the Music Industry

    No other company has changed the music industry as much as Apple. For the better part of the last decade, the late Steve Jobs and his co-conspirators have empowered music consumers in ways no one would have ever imagined. The monstrous iTunes store made it possible for anybody to buy music without ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Steve Jobs RIP: Apple Founder Succumbs To Cancer At 56 #SteveJobs

    Apple has passed along the sad news that it's founder, Steve Jobs, has died this evening at the age of 56. News of his death is now sweeping the web and social media is afire. The tech mogul and pioneer in personal computing had been battling pancreatic cancer for a few years now. He stepped down ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    What Google & Motorola's Marriage Means To The Music Industry

    The Daily Beast​Google stunned the tech world last week when it tied the knot with Motorola for $12.5 billion. But it's the music business that should be raising its brows at the union. Like any typical suitor, Google weighed Motorola's considerably large assets in its decision to get in bed ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Montrose Murder

    Paul Broussard's killer, up for parole, may not be model prisoner.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Young & Recessioned: Katelyn Orenchuk, Learning How To Keep Football Stats

    ​The Big Recession may have hit the rest of America harder than it has Houston, but that doesn't mean we're not feeling the effects. Especially the youngest people in the job market -- whether it's twentysomethings trying to start their dreamed-of career or teens looking to begin making money on t ... More >>

  • News

    December 24, 2009

    Year in Film: Rent a Wreck

    For a former video store giant, not such a blockbuster decade.

  • News

    December 10, 2009

    O'Brien's Song

    After years of fighting everybody and anybody, now the ornery, annoying civil rights activist has to concentrate on fighting for his life.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Bill Gates Helps Out Houston's KIPP Charter School In A Big Way

    ​The KIPP charter schools in Houston are getting a huge boost from Bill Gates, according to the Wall Street Journal.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it is guaranteeing $30 million worth of bonds so that KIPP can expand operations here "from 4,500 in 15 schools to 21,000 stude ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Social Distortion: Killing Tom Softly With MySpace's Song

    Oh, 2006. Long lost 2006. The Golden Age of MySpace. Remember MySpace? That social networking site you logged into obsessively before the advent of Facebook and after Friendster's demise? Where Microsoft Paint made a fourth-quarter comeback in the image editing (and annotating) arena? Where b ... More >>

  • News

    June 25, 2009

    ID Theft

    Someone gets your social, ruins your credit, upends your life. And gets away free and clear.

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

    Someone gets your social, ruins your credit, upends your life. And gets away free and clear.

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    My Prayer (Is To Be On An E-Mail List)

    Hair Balls is now being prayed for by a network of faithful across America. And it's free. (We think.) A Houston-based company called My Prayer Initiative offers the service (we'll get back to that), which, according to them, is the first of its kind.The press release My Prayer Initiative sent ove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Facebook Hamstrings Whopper Sacrifice Application

    It was easy to guess that Burger King's somewhat mean-spirited Whopper Sacrifice Facebook application was going to draw some kind of fire; less easy to guess was that the fire would be drawn from Facebook itself, because the application, to put it bluntly, worked too well. In the world of Whopper ... More >>

  • Music

    January 8, 2009
  • Home Entertainment

    July 24, 2008

    Diminished Expo-tations at E3

    E3 revelations are hit and miss — unless you really dig chopping wood

  • Home Entertainment

    October 11, 2007

    Halo 3

    Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  • Film

    June 7, 2007

    Geekology 101

    Judd Apatow explains himself.

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Hollywood Halo

    Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits

  • News

    January 6, 2005

    The Halo Challenge

    Master Chief, a weapons-toting super-enhanced human, is the only being who can save the earth. A video gamer from Texas is the world champion at helping him do just that — thousands of times over.

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Dance Fever

    HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  • News

    May 13, 2004

    Captive Market

    Companies complain that they can't compete against convict labor

  • Culture

    November 27, 2003

    Incest Is Wrong

    The MFAH shamelessly hops in bed with the Houston Texans

  • Music

    October 16, 2003

    Destroy All Monsters of Rock!

    Please come see Shonen Knife's powerful activity!

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Doing Time

    With JC in the TDCJ

  • Calendar

    July 17, 2003

    Wha's Up, Beesh?

    Baby Beesh will pour some "Suga Suga" on you at the Lowrider magazine Legends Tour

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Taking the Plunge

    Saad Mahmoud is a Rice engineering grad. Instead of fielding $60,000-a-year job offers, he's been trading manual-labor skills for rent-free living -- while waiting out one of the worst job markets in two decades.

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Reality Bytes

    The White House-cracking cybergang is gone. Now Houston’s most notorious hacker hopes to reboot his life and return to his love: computers.

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Thumb TAKS

    Plus: Wonderful Rubbish, Dems Don't Get It, Peeved at Parsons

  • News

    May 2, 2002

    You Don't Know Mac

    Get your recliner and No. 2 pencil

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Rewriting History

    The Chron pities the fools who bought Enron's hype

  • Film

    November 29, 2001

    Snore War

    Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

  • Culture

    November 29, 2001

    When In Doubt...

    Classic gifts

  • News

    August 2, 2001

    Tooned In To Anime

    Fans say there's nothing Mickey Mouse about these Japanese cartoons with their stories of love, sex, death and saving the world

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    All's Dell

    So long to slackers and laid-back lifestyles. Now that cash-rich techies have taken over, can Austin survive the great digital divide?

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Stepping on Some Toes

    How many Aggies does it take to dance the Aggie Jitterbug? One to lead, one to follow and one to tell them to cease and desist.

  • Film

    February 17, 2000

    $tocks and Bonding

    Boiler Room steams with the stark greed of go-for-brokers

  • Music

    December 30, 1999

    Where Will They Be?

    A look at the rock scene in 2020

  • Music

    December 23, 1999

    Amplified

    Outta Sight

  • News

    May 20, 1999
  • Music

    April 2, 1998

    Write or Wrong?

    Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

  • Music

    August 14, 1997

    Static

    Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

  • News

    April 24, 1997

    The Insider

    Marilyn Manson's Long Hard Road Out of Hell is paved with one journalist's bad intentions

  • News

    March 20, 1997

    Off Line

    Take an ex-con with a smooth line of patter, a group of mystery investors and some gullible journalists. What have you got? Houston's first on-line daily newspaper. At least for a few weeks.

  • Calendar

    December 26, 1996

    Press Picks

    Take an ex-con with a smooth line of patter, a group of mystery investors and some gullible journalists. What have you got? Houston's first on-line daily newspaper. At least for a few weeks.

  • News

    August 17, 1995

    The Insider

    Take an ex-con with a smooth line of patter, a group of mystery investors and some gullible journalists. What have you got? Houston's first on-line daily newspaper. At least for a few weeks.

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